Principal Engineer, Cyberbank Core

Galileo Financial Technologies

Principal Software Engineer leading Cyberbank Core team at Galileo, shaping next-gen banking solutions. Collaborating across teams on architecture, quality improvements, and mentoring engineers.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇾 UruguayLead💰 $1,000 - $2,000 per monthWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own driving Cyberbank Core's software architecture and systems forward — setting long-term direction and executing on it across multiple teams and quarters, with a particular focus on the core banking services, data pipelines, and API platform.
Build as an exemplary practitioner: get hands-on developing software and set a high quality standard for teams to follow.
Define the right boundaries, APIs, and integrations between teams and with clients and partners to ensure technical and business success across multiple geographies.
Solve complex engineering problems endemic to high-availability, low-latency, scalable distributed systems in a regulated banking environment.
Execute large-scale projects — leading design, planning, and execution across multiple teams to drive technical direction and product outcomes.
Drive the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS services and data engineering pipelines that support next-generation core banking capabilities.
Proactively identify broader problems and opportunities. Anticipate and design the next generation of our systems and products.
Raise the quality of our engineering teams: identify opportunities and advocate for improvements to how we write software, our approach to testing and quality, and the habits and processes of highly effective teams.
Mentor and coach individuals and teams across the company. Steward engineering communities, fostering design collaboration and mindshare.
Articulate how technical architecture and team structure interact, and provide input on the right organizational structure to deliver on our engineering goals.
Serve as a strategic advisor to leadership, representing technical strategy to business and executive stakeholders and participating in strategic planning.
Continuously drive improvement, new practices, and operational excellence initiatives across the department.
Champion improvements in code, design, and operational reviews. Lead initiatives that improve department software quality and operations. Be a stakeholder in engineering norms and standards for code quality, software quality, and operational excellence.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of programming experience; mastery of software development independent of language.
Advanced expertise in designing, building, and operating large-scale fault-tolerant distributed systems, applications, databases, and workflows.
Demonstrated experience with continuous delivery principles and techniques: you've built systems with layered test automation that is always safe for automated releases to production, enabling a great, low-cycle-time developer experience.
Deep expertise in designing and managing cloud-based solutions with a strong focus on resiliency experience with AWS (or other public cloud infrastructure) required.
A high standard for what 'great' looks like, and experience continuously improving legacy systems to reach it.
Strong judgment, and experience recognizing and driving out critical decisions in a balanced and pragmatic way.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across remote, distributed teams.
Experience working in a regulated industry.
Experience working on banking backends, particularly cores, ledgers, or payment systems is a plus.
Bi-lingual Spanish/English required.

Benefits

Comp & perks

This role is also eligible for a bonus, long term incentives and competitive benefits. More information about our employee benefits can be found in the link above.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software Development MasteryFault-Tolerant SystemsTest AutomationData Engineering PipelinesAPI DesignSaaS ServicesScalable SystemsOperational ExcellenceLegacy System ImprovementBanking Backend Systems

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication SkillsInfluencing SkillsCollaboration SkillsJudgment and Decision-MakingMentoring and Coaching